Nest building

Remember that moss is valued by birds for nest-building, so consider leaving a mossy patch for them to obtain nesting material, or leave piles of raked-out moss in an open position for them to collect. 

G. Waser. Effects of multiple, chronic CS199 and early hashish exposure on mating behavior, nest-building, and gestation in mice. Comp Biochem Physiol 1982 ... 

Nest building Littered nests (e.g. using chaff)... 

Parental behaviour (nest-building, buccal incubation of eggs, maintenance of brood pouch) in some species. 

While many gem materials contain inclusions, amber is unique in that it can contain inclusions of plant and animal matter - flora and fauna. These have become stuck to the sticky surface of the resin as it oozed from the tree. They may have inadvertently landed on it, or they may have been blown onto it by the wind. In the case of stingless bees, it is thought that they gathered the resin for nest building. Other trapped creatures have included termites, ants, flying ants, butterflies, moths and damsel flies, or anything too small or weak to be able to extricate itself. 

Vegetation survey. During peak nest-building in the last week of April and the first week of May 1984, we sampled the green herbaceous vegetation... 

Collias, N., and Collias, E., 1974, "Nest Building Behavior in Birds," Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J. 

The chemical organization among social insects is unique. All activities within colonies of social insects seem to depend to some degree on the emission of chemical signals. Thus chemicals released by social insects are involved in sex attraction, reproductive isolation, recruitment, nest defense, nest building, predation, territoriality, kin recognition and many other aspects of their life. 

Eickwort, G. C. (1975) Nest-building behavior of the mason bee Hoplitis anthocopoides (Hymenoptera Megachilidae). Z. Tierpsychol., 37, 237-54. 

Chemical secretions, as we have seen, play an important role in termite foraging, recruitment, caste determination, and nest-building, as they do in social insects in general. However, in termites, we are faced with an excellent opportunity to explain inter-relationships between species in chemical terms because of their frequent reliance on chemical defense, which is linked with other aspects of their biology, such as foraging, feeding habits, nest structure and building behavior. 

The majority of animals that attack plastics are insects and rodents. Other than microorganisms, they generally cause mechanical damage. Rodents chew up any plastics products in their way - out of pure impulse or to utilize the attacked material for nest building [29]. 

Silk fibroin (SF) polymers consist of repetitive protein sequences and provide structural roles in cocoon formation, nest building, traps, web formation and egg protection. Silks are generally composted of P-sheet structures due to the dominance of hydrophobic domains consisting of short sidechain amino acids in the primary sequence. Silk is biocompatible, degradable and shows superior mechanical properties. Silk materials are amenable to aqueous or organic solvent processing and can be chemically modified to suit a wide range of biomedical applications [249-251]. 

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